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Four days after the president said he was dismissing the head of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian has yet to accept or challenge his authority.
The Smithsonian will conduct a content review across its 21 museums and zoo following an excutive order from President Donald Trump.
Trump is accused of not having the authority to terminate Kim Sajet as director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National ...
The Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents may have to get used to meetings where accountability is expected. Members ...
The Smithsonian has said it retains power over personnel decisions, but Kim Sajet, the longtime director of the National ...
Two weeks after President Donald Trump claimed he’d fired her because she’s a “highly partisan person,” the Smithsonian’s ...
The Smithsonian Institution late Monday issued its own declaration of independence, saying authority over its staff lies with ...
The standoff between President Trump and the Smithsonian Institution ends, for now, as National Portrait Gallery Director Kim ...
The past month has seen bold advances in Donald Trump’s crusade to recapture cultural ground that the Left had conquered in ...
The Board of Regents publicly backed Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch III and called for nonpartisanship after Trump attempted to fire a museum director.
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch announced director Kim Sajet’s resignation in a Friday email to staff, obtained by ...
Trump called the director a “highly partisan person” and a “strong supporter of DEI” in a May 30 Truth Social post. The ...